The state of Delaware fell from the top-ranked position to number 11 in the most recent survey on the business-friendly environment for lawsuits in state courts, ceding ground to the stat...

Last week saw two significant developments for the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (“CFIUS”). First, on Wednesday, September 13, acting on the recommendation of C...

The debate over the proposed reforms on the structural framework for vetting and approving Hong Kong listings came to fruition last week, when the SFC and the Stock Exchange issued the co...

Although the failure rate for 2017 say-on pay results achieved an all-time low of just 1.3%, the number belies the fact that more than 2,000 say-on pay proposals have either received nega...

The State Department confirmed during a September 14, 2017 press briefing that the Trump administration has executed a necessary waiver to continue the United States’ nuclear sanctions ...

On Tuesday the House Committee on Financial Services passed along to the whole House a bill that would require the federal banking agencies to amend their liquidity rules (including the L...

Vanguard cast more than 171,000 individual votes at nearly 13,000 companies in 68 countries for the 12-month period ending June 30th, making the firm one of the most influential investors...

On 12 September 2016, the UK Takeover Panel published the twelfth edition of the Takeover Code, replacing in its entirety the previous edition published in September 2011 in the wake of K...

In the August 25th episode of the CFTC podcast, CFTC Talks, the new Director of the CFTC’s Enforcement Division, James McDonald, discussed his priorities for the Division (transcript he...

Deadlines for calendar-year companies are rapidly approaching Many companies were required to include “say-on-frequency” proposals in their 2017 annual meeting proxies. Under a say-on...